Knockgorm
Townland in the civil parish of Killeagh, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork; in Irish An Cnoc Gorm
- Area
- 58.9 ha
- 146 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 123,681 m² (12.37 ha, 30.56 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockgorm, from 17,368 m² (1.74 ha, 4.29 acres) to 323,654 m² (32.37 ha, 79.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Knockgorm in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 May 2024Conditional
Permission to:- (A) Demolish an existing outbuilding (B) Construct a single storey extension to the existing dwelling house (C) Elevational changes to the existing dwelling house (D) Decommission the existing septic tank and install a new wastewater unit and all associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4932
17 May 2024Conditional
Permission to construct a dwelling house, garage, on-site waste water treatment unit and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4891
15 Jul 2021Conditional
Construction of a single storey granny flat extension and revised boundaries to single storey dwelling.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5967
11 Jun 2021Incompleted application
Construction of a single-storey granny-flat extension to single-storey dwelling.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5619
20 Jul 2005Conditional
Extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5202
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockgorm.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockgorm.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockgorm.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockgorm.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knockgorm with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Knockgorm · An Cnoc Gorm
- Area
- 589,424 m² (58.94 ha, 145.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killeagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Electoral division
- Killeagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killeagh electoral division: 1,588 people in 538 households; 78% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyknock, Ballymackibbot, Corbally, Monavarnoge, Mountuniacke, Mountuniacke
- Placenames
- Knockgorm on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.